New Jersey Obituaries Search

This guide to New Jersey obituary records was created to provide genealogists with access to the best New Jersey obituary databases from a single web page.

Obituaries contain information about a person's life, their death, place of burial, surviving relatives and contact information for the funeral home.

This webpage gives you access to all of the online databases containing New Jersey obituaries, New Jersey death notices, other New Jersey obituary records, and various other related New Jersey genealogy records.

Obituaries have long been used to help with genealogy research. The Internet has allowed people to store obituary records into various online obituary archives. This has brought access to online obituary records much more easier for genealogy researchers.

Newspaper obituaries are among the most popular form of online obituaries. Other obituaries published in journals, and by funeral homes, are also available online. Most newspapers publish their recent obituaries online.

The Internet is also a popular way to find celebrity obituaries. Obituaries of celebrities can be found on hundreds of websites. Searching for "celebrity obituaries" on a search engine like Google.com can yield thousands of online obituary records.

New Jersey Obituary Records Online

The wealth of genealogical and biographical information to be found
in an informative obituary certainly makes the effort of searching
for one worthwhile. For many of our ancestors (and relatives), the
obituary is the only "biographical sketch" that was ever devoted to
that individual. In addition to names, dates, and places of birth,
marriage, and death, the obituary often identifies relationships of
the deceased as child, sibling, parent, grandparent, etc., to numerous
other individuals. Obituaries may even suggest other documentation
of an individual's death - a death certificate in another county because
the hospital was located there; church or cemetery records (by identifying
the place of burial or the officiating minister); or records of a
coroner's inquest because the death was sudden or unexpected. And,
of course, the wealth of detail in an informative obituary may open
up many research avenues.

In an obituary search, it is necessary to investigate the files of
all likely newspapers. It is impossible to know beforehand which,
if any, paper is going to have the best or fullest obituary. Many
cities have more than one paper and an obituary for a specific individual
could appear in more than one place. Also, when considering possible
obituary sources don't just check in the community where the individual
died - also check the community (or communities) where the individual
lived. Many people in their later years go to live with children and
often die far from where they spent most of their adult lives. But,
if they still had connections with the home community, there is a
good chance that an obituary will appear there, perhaps a more detailed
one than will be found in the community of death, where that person
was just a new or temporary resident. However, the opposite may also
be true.